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The fact that YALE CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL commemorates the dead of both Union and Confederate forces is out of the ordinary, unique in Connecticut. Such an attitude on the part of MEMORIAL's planners no doubt was a function of the decades that had passed since 1865. By the 1909 Yale commencement, when a committee was appointed by President William Howard Taft to take action, enough time had gone by to permit the broader view. The lettering in the floor expresses the same spirit of reconciliation in the hope "that the bonds which now unite the land may endure." At the same time, the inscription repeats the traditional precept that all men are expected to continue their patriotic devotion and willingness to die for their country.
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